The Popular Science magazine in conjunction with Google have made their entire archive of 137 years available online through Google book search. Every page has been converted to digital text allowing for text searched of specific articles from within the archive. “We’ve partnered with Google to offer our entire 137-year archive for free browsing. Each issue appears just as it did at its original time of publication, complete with period advertisements. It’s an amazing resource that beautifully encapsulates our ongoing fascination with the future, and science and technology’s incredible potential to improve our lives. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do.” says popsci.com read more… »
Entire Popular Science Archive Made Avaliable Online
Facebook Plans to Grow Out of Facebook.com
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of the hugely popular online social network site Facebook.com, recently announced a proposal that will allow Facebook to in essence expand off of facebook.com. By implementing the Open Graph API, web developers can make their pages function like native Facebook pages. Allowing Facebook users to become fans of these pages, which will then be displayed on their profile. read more… »
Confirmed: Paypal To Reach South Africa
FNB has recently confirmed the rumours of bringing PayPal to South Africa, amidst a buzz of online hype regarding the speculation of PayPal in South Africa. FNB CEO along with PayPal senior executives are to hold an official press conference with journalists regarding the PayPal FNB deal.
South African consumers until now, have not had proper access to PayPal services as the service has not been fully supported by the South African monetary system. Consumers may now look forward to accessing and participating in more online commerce as access to PayPal will make it easier for international online payments and money transfers to be processed. read more… »
Ubuntu Identity Overhaul
A new logo, a new identity. The upcoming release of Ubuntu 10.04 and Ubuntu is set to receive a major identity upgrade, from it’s logo through to its design. “We’re drawn to Light because it denotes both warmth and clarity, and intrigued by the idea that “light” is a good value in software. Good software is “light” in the sense that it uses your resources efficiently, runs quickly, and can easily be reshaped as needed.” explains Mark Shuttle worth who along with a small team of designers who are behind the recent Ubuntu re branding. read more… »
46 Firefox Features You Might Not Know About
Firefox, an open source application that needs no introduction. A browser that has succesfully been eating away it it’s competitors market share since the early parts of the decade. Firefox with it’s theming and extenibility is an incredibly adaptible and customizable browser. As of version 3 a lot of work has gone into a set of new features, mainly for HTML 5 and CSS 3. read more… »
Death to IE6, No More Google Support
Internet Explorer 6, the thorn in the side of many web developers and designers, through its rampant internet standards defiant rendering. Many developers will agree that the elimination of this decade old browser will most defiantly be a good thing. Internet Explore 6 support was dropped by Google as of 1 March, meaning that Google docs, Google Apps, Gmail and all other Google services will no longer support the ageing browser in an effort to introduce new features to these services. read more… »
The Inevitable Firefox vs Chrome debate
With the Chrome browser gaining market share, with it’s innovative feature set and interface, it is heating up competition for the open source giant, Firefox. Firefox, initially paved the way for an alternative browser lifestyle that many internet surfers enjoy today. It’s quite easily filled a need that Internet Explorer couldn’t, mainly being security and innovative ergonomics. read more… »
Google Maps Adds Experimental New Features
The Google Maps service just recently got a ‘labs’ section, much like Gmail and other Google Services. Along with the introduction of labs to their maps offerings, Google has released a collection of nine innovative labs features the Google maps service. read more… »
Useful Photo Orientated Chrome Extensions
With Chrome recently fully supporting third party extensions the flood gates are open to millions of developers around the world to build useful and innovative extensions that both enhance or improve online browsing with Google’s Chrome browser. A large part of Firefox’s awesome success is owed to extensibility, it would seem only natural that the Chrome which has proven to be an incredibly innovative browser would follow. read more… »
Download More Ram Prank
Do you curse the low ram capacity that your computer has?? Your days of frustration are over, just header over to downloadmoreram.com and increase your computer’s ram, absolutely free! A clever prank set up that will probably catch a few non computer savvy people out there. The whole website is a joke as stated in it’s footer and means no harm. The concept of being able to download and install additional ram is rather humorous! read more… »
Facebook Chat Goes Jabber Friendly
The Facebook chat platform went jabber friendly today, meaning that one can connect to the Facebook chat service from any jabber enabled messaging client. “Every day people send more than two billion chat messages to each other on Facebook. Today we’re making it easier for people to extend those conversations with their Facebook friends to instant messaging clients beyond Facebook.com. Facebook Chat now supports Jabber/XMPP, the open standard for instant messaging. Now developers can integrate Facebook Chat with their Web-based, desktop, or mobile instant messaging products.” say the Developers at Facebook. read more… »
The Google Tablet Concept
Following the recent announcement by Apple to begin manufacturing and selling thier iPad tablet computer, Google decided to release some Google Chrome OS mockups illustrating how the Google tablet would look like, if it were to exist. read more… »
